at the commandant’s, everyone was placed in a cell completely unsuitable for keeping people. After 10 days, some staff from the prosecutor’s office came in and presented them with an ultimatum: either they return to the frontline, or they all get 10-year prison terms in a high-security penal colony.

 

Source: ‘They were ready to be tried under the law’ In the occupied Luhansk region, Russian soldiers who refuse to fight are imprisoned without a trial and pressured back to the frontline — Meduza